Kellogg Institute

V-Dem is very much a collaborative effort. One of the two institutional homes is Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame.

The V-Dem team at Notre Dame worked with the development of software for the research database and the web interfaces and also administered data collection in the Americas. The Kellogg Institute cosponsored the first such unveiling in Latin America in Santiago, Chile in January 2014. More information at: http://kellogg.nd.edu/faculty/news/vdem4.shtml .

Funding from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond has allowed the team to move forward on three subprojects:

Building composite measures of democracy by aggregating specific indicators into more general dimensions

Identifying the stages and sequencing of the democratization process, including early warning signs of democratic breakdowns

Analyzing processes of diffusion, including how and under what conditions democracy spreads.

In addition, a recent National Science Foundation grant to Notre Dame and two other US universities underwrites analysis of the impact of various aspects of democracy on health, education, economic growth, and other outcomes.

Kellogg Community Involvement

V-Dem has benefitted from the involvement of the entire Kellogg community: